Tag: chelsea

A few months ago I was contacted by the Proud Gallery in Chelsea to ask if they could use some of my dad's photos in an upcoming exhibition based around Ossie Clark, the 1960's fashion designer.
I am very pleased to say that from the 21st February to the 10th March, Proud Chelsea will be hosting "Ossie Clark: The King of the King’s Road Reigns Again", featuring four of my dad's photos. He would have been thrilled / stunned / gobsmacked to know that some of his pictures are being exhibited alongside the likes of Norman Parkinson's, someone whose work he most definitely knew and liked.
There's also a bit about it in Time Out.
The pictures are being made available to buy in a limited edition of 25 each - these are only available via the gallery....

The third annual visit to photograph the happening people of King's Road.OK, I know this one isn't King's Road - it's Piccadilly Circus - and the people are probably slightly less trend-setting than the fashionistas of Chelsea, but it's still worth posting....

July 1968 on the King's Road - A Bentley S1, registration 222 APL. It was decorated by some bloke who married the flat-mate of our current next door neighbour when she lived in Liverpool. That's not why I've posted this pic - he was slightly more famous for something else. Her name was Cynthia - she married John Lennon...See this website for a colour image - scroll down a bit....

It would appear that my father visited the King's Road in Chelsea a few times in the late 1960s and early 1970s to photograph the nation's trend setters. It looks like he went every summer from 1967 to 1975.
These are from 1967 and 1968, and it'll be interesting to see how the fashions change over the years!
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